More Effective C#

Bill Wagner's new "More Effective C#" has been released and is now available both online and in bookstores near you.

Item 1 in his book has inspired me to put togther a page on considerations for CSharpClassDesign. Its a work in progress.

Mojave - next steps with Commerce Server

Microsoft has made some announcments for their next steps and commitment to Commerce Server. You can see the PDC presentation online here.

Ann Arbor Day of .NET

I'm currently attending .NET of .NET in Ann Arbor. I'll be keeping notes here on my blog through out the day.

• First up I'm attending DavidTruxall's talk "Byond Breakpoints: Debugging and Troubleshooting". You can find a copy of his presentation here.

• Next I attended Dan Rigsby's talk on "RESTing on the Web with WCF". Now I am typing this as Dan is giving his presentation, and also checking out his blog. I've found some entries that I'm guessing cover a lot of the same material he covered in his presentation here and here.

MS Patterns and Practices Releases the RepositoryFactory Guidance Package

MS has released a new patterns and practices guidance package for data access. It can be found on code plex here: http://www.codeplex.com/RepositoryFactory

David Hayen has a few web casts on this. You can find these on his web site [here http://www.pnpguidance.net/Post/NewGuidancePackageMicrosoftDataAccessTechnologies.aspx]. I'm in the process of reviewing this. My initial look suggests it is promising. I can't wait to see how similar it is the the data access type of projects I am building using the MS Enterprise Library's Unit block IOC container, and how well it conforms to the Dependency Inversion Principle.

MS Word Paste without formatting

Office 2007 lost the Control-Shift-V feature where you can paste without formatting and retain the formatting of the surrounding context. You can do this via the paste menu, but its just too damn many "clicks". Record yourself macro and assign it this hotkey. When you are done it should look like the code below. I found that when recoding the macro Word doesn't select the right parameter so you have to force the wdFormatText by fixing up the macro after the fact.

Sub PasteUnformatted()
'
' PasteUnformatted Macro
'
    Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatText)
    
End Sub